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• Utah’s Larry Krystkowiak and BYU’s Nick Emery on good terms after text message exchange

  12-12-2017 23:58
  The fireworks that took place in the last meeting between the Utah and BYU men’s basketball teams were apparently put to bed on a holiday celebrated with fireworks.Utes coach Larry Krystkowiak and BYU basketball player Nick Emery, who withdrew from school prior to season opener, hashed out their differences via a text message exchange initiated on the Fourth of July. Krystkowiak acknowledged during his weekly news conference on Tuesday that a reconciliation had taken place.“It was pr
  
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• More 📸's from yesterdays visit at @primarychildren Hospital. #ThisIsWhyWePlay #TakeNote https://t.co/RA0QUG1png

  12-12-2017 23:52 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah volunteers find fulfillment helping homeless youths

  12-12-2017 23:44
  A service project organized by her Unitarian church for Volunteers of America, Utah introduced business owner Peggy Montrone to the nonprofit and its Youth Resource Center.Erma Decaria, a registered nurse, always enjoyed service work.Kathy Wagner, a secretary at Granite School District, liked helping with VOA’s Fill the Pack, a holiday project to load up backpacks with items needed by homeless youth.And De Buchanan , who used to work for a steel company, was frustrated with the current pol
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Report: Joe Johnson expected to return to Utah Jazz this week

  12-12-2017 23:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... rt of Utah’s offensive game plan. When Johnson was on the floor, the 2016-17 Jazz scored better than 108 points per 100 possessions. He was particularly helpf ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Report: Former Utah Jazz point guard George Hill “unhappy”

  12-12-2017 23:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... , 2017 Quite frankly, the Jazz could really use him right now. Their offense has struggled of late without...
  
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• UPD searches for man who rammed police vehicles with stolen car

  12-12-2017 23:30
  Law enforcement officers are searching for a man used the stolen vehicle he’d been sleeping in to ram the police vehicles that had boxed him in.Police identified the suspect as 39-year-old Harley Gregory Welsh, of Taylorsville. In the last year, Welsh has been convicted of third-degree felony theft by receiving stolen property, class A misdemeanor theft and intentional criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor.Police got a call about 9:45 a.m. from someone reporting a suspicious vehicle wit
  
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• Have you signed up for the Jr. NBA 3v3 Tournament?! Games begin at the start of the New Year so hurry quick cause… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-12-2017 23:13 via twitter.com
  Have you signed up for the Jr. NBA 3v3 Tournament?!Games begin at the start of the New Year so hurry quick cause… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• DEA official says 2016 law that undermined enforcement should be changed. Sen. Hatch disagrees.

  12-12-2017 23:05
  Washington • The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration office that regulates pharmaceutical opioids told senators Tuesday that a 2016 law has made enforcement more difficult in urgent circumstances and should be revised.Demetra Ashley, who leads the agency’s Diversion Control Division, said it is up to Congress to decide whether to repeal or amend the law. But she said the DEA agrees with the Justice Department that it should be altered to help curb the ongoing opioid epidemic.S
  
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• Two sentenced to prison for a Utah robbery that was thwarted when the victim shot and killed a third would-be robber

  12-12-2017 23:02
  Two men have been sentenced to prison after an attempted robbery last year in downtown Salt Lake City ended with a fatal shooting and a car crash.The two men had been trying to rob Daniel Christopher Simon, who fatally shot a third would-be robber, 30-year-old Jesse Ray Rakes. All three surviving men were charged in 3rd District Court in connection with the events on Aug. 28, 2016 near 500 West and 300 South. But the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office declined to file homicide cha
  
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• Jazz facing a murderer’s row of NBA superstars on road trip. One seasoned Utah veteran sizes them up

  12-12-2017 23:02
  The schedule reads this way: Boston. Cleveland. Houston. Oklahoma City.To Thabo Sefolosha’s eyes, this week’s Utah Jazz schedule morphs into a murderer’s row of the league’s best scorers: Kyrie Irving. LeBron James. James Harden. Russell Westbrook.Now in his 11th season, Sefolosha has seen all of these stars a handful of times — and he’s been thrown on them often. Paul George said earlier this year that the one-time all-NBA defender relishes the big assignment
  
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• Albert Hunt: The Trump-Russia probe is about to get uglier

  12-12-2017 23:02
  Here are two certainties about the Trump-Russia investigation. It won’t end soon. It will get uglier.A new shoe drops almost daily in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. First, Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying and agreed to cooperate. Then the White House changed its story (again) on what President Donald Trump knew after he was first advised in January that Flynn posed security problems.Last week came news that Mueller had subpoenaed financi
  
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• [NBA] - POLL: What is Your Favorite Three This Season?

  12-12-2017 22:58 via sportspyder.com
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• They made her put out her cigarette. She then threatened to kill everyone on the plane.

  12-12-2017 22:39
  Southwest Airlines says it all started with a cigarette.A passenger was smoking in the bathroom somewhere between Portland and Sacramento on Saturday, according to the airline, and had gone so far as to tamper with the smoke detector.So a flight attendant barged in on the woman, according to KOIN 6. This at least got her out of the bathroom, but did little else to improve the situation on Flight 2943.The woman ripped an oxygen mask out of the ceiling as crew forced her back to her seat, the stat
  
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• Rock On: A one-word summary for USU loss

  12-12-2017 22:30
  IN A WORDUtah State basketball coach Tim Duryea didn’t mince words assessing Koby McEwen’s performance against Utah.“Awful,” Duryea said. “I thought he was awful in every area — mentally, physically, on the defensive end, on the offensive end. He was worried about things he shouldn’t be worried about. Worried about the officials, worried about this, worried about that. It was just really an awful performance.“In a game like this, with our team, we
  
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• Utah County legislators join chorus calling on Commissioner Greg Graves to resign in wake of harassment allegations

  12-12-2017 22:24
  Provo • Utah County legislators joined a growing chorus calling on County Commissioner Greg Graves to resign in the wake of an investigation that showed he’s viewed by numerous public employees as a bully who has outbursts during uncomfortable interactions they try to avoid if they can.Dozens of public officials from the county are discussing a letter that would seek to usher Graves to the door, according to Sen. Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, who agreed to add his name to the letter callin
  
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• Report: Former Utah Jazz point guard George Hill “unhappy”

  12-12-2017 22:08
  Reports continue to surface that former Utah Jazz point guard George Hill is unhappy with his current situation with the Sacramento Kings. Say what you will about the way George Hill’s time with the Utah Jazz came to an end, but there’s no denying that he was tremendous when playing in a Jazz uniform. In […]
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz move down NBA Power Rankings amid three game skid

  12-12-2017 22:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... w dropped three straight. The upcoming schedule won’t get any easier for the Jazz, as they play their next five away from home. The final four games on their...
  
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• Report: Joe Johnson expected to return to Utah Jazz this week

  12-12-2017 22:01
  After losing six weeks of the season, Utah Jazz forward Joe Johnson is nearing his return to the court. Once Wednesday’s cupcake matchup with the Chicago Bulls is on the books, things are going to get tough for the Utah Jazz. Their next four games come against the Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets and […]
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• Alyssa Rosenberg: Pop culture 2017: The year in female rage

  12-12-2017 22:00
  The first few weeks of 2017 are mostly a blank in my memory. It’s as if my mind couldn’t reconcile itself to the fact that something truly incomprehensible had come to pass, that Donald Trump had actually been elected and was going to be sworn in as president of the United States, until it actually happened.The year didn’t snap into focus for me until Jan. 21, when I stuck a notebook, pens and a digital recorder in my pockets and started walking down to the National Mall with m
  
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• UPD searches for man who rammed police vehicles with stolen car to flee

  12-12-2017 21:50
  Law enforcement officers are searching for a man used the stolen vehicle he’d been sleeping in to ram the police vehicles that had boxed him in.Police identified the suspect as 39-year-old Harley Gregory Welsh, of Taylorsville. In the last year, Welsh has been convicted of third-degree felony theft by receiving stolen property, class A misdemeanor theft and intentional criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor.Police got a call about 9:45 a.m. from someone reporting a suspicious vehicle wit
  
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• .@UofUHealth Injury Report: Rodney Hood (left ankle soreness) is available. Jonas Jerebko (illness) is probable.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-12-2017 21:50 via twitter.com
  .@UofUHealth Injury Report:Rodney Hood (left ankle soreness) is available. Jonas Jerebko (illness) is probable.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Anne Applebaum: Polish government is cracking down on private media — in name of combating ‘fake news’

  12-12-2017 21:46
  If you have become numbed to President Donald Trump’s constant attacks on the media, if you have lost interest in which networks he currently considers to be “fake news,” if you have grown tired of hearing him call journalists “enemies of the people” — well, that’s unfortunate, because plenty of others are still paying attention.Around the world, dictators and would-be authoritarians have picked up his attitude and his terminology. From Syria to Venezuel
  
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• What's your favorite way to get Jazz updates? 📲 Poll brought to you by: @Qualtrics

  12-12-2017 21:22 via twitter.com
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• Cultural Christmas overtaking holiday’s religious aspects, new study shows, as belief in Nativity slips

  12-12-2017 21:19
  When you think of Christmas, is it more likely to conjure up images of a lulling Jesus or a laughing Santa, gift-bearing wise men or bargain-hunting shoppers, a bright star in the East or blinking lights on the house?For more and more Americans, a new survey shows, yuletide is seen as a cultural holiday, not a religiously rooted holy day. Indeed, the biblical Nativity story itself is finding fewer believers.In a telephone survey of 1,503 adults nationwide released Tuesday, the Pew Research Cente
  
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• RSL avoids any losses in MLS Expansion Draft

  12-12-2017 21:03
  No Real Salt Lake players were selected Tuesday afternoon for the first time in five MLS Expansion Drafts.LAFC had five picks in the 2017 MLS Expansion Draft to help add to its roster for its inaugural season.Expansion drafts have not been kind to RSL. It lost goalkeeper Jeff Antinella to Minnesota United last season. Ned Grabavoy and Chris Wingert both went to NYCFC when Orlando City SC and New York City FC were allowed to take a maximum of two players from a team. The Montreal Impact selected
  
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• So much for an easy win. Bulls' improvement bad news for Jazz

  12-12-2017 20:59
  Chicago • The NBA is a funny and fickle league.The Chicago Bulls looked like an easy win for the Utah Jazz as recently as a week ago. A sure thing. The Bulls were reeling, having lost 20 of their first 23 games and struggling on both ends of the floor. They were one of the punchlines of the league. Losing to Chicago was an embarrassing proposition.The Bulls now look like anything but a pushover as the Jazz head to the United Center to match up with the team they blew out just before Thanksg
  
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• Police nab suspects after burglars targeted post office, high school in southern Utah

  12-12-2017 20:58
  Three suspects have been arrested after burglars stole packages from a post office and electronics from Wayne County High School, police said.Law enforcement officers first began looking into the matter on Saturday, when deputies were dispatched to the post office in Loa at about 7:30 a.m., a press release from the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office says. It appeared that the burglars forced their way into the building and stole packages and boxes addressed to county residents.The next day, dep
  
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• Complaint: Woman assaulted son on flight to Salt Lake City

  12-12-2017 20:51
  A federal complaint accuses a Colorado woman of assaulting her son during a flight from Boston to Salt Lake City.The complaint filed in U.S. District Court against Cherice Dawn Klipfel states a passenger on the Sunday JetBlue Airways flight witnessed the mother striking, slapping, kicking and shoving her 8-year-old son.Records show Klipfel appeared in court Monday on a misdemeanor assault count. She did not enter a plea.The complaint states two other passengers saw Klipfel “tightly cover&r
  
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• Anne Applebaum: Polish government cracking down on private media — in name of combating ‘fake news’

  12-12-2017 20:44
  If you have become numbed to President Donald Trump’s constant attacks on the media, if you have lost interest in which networks he currently considers to be “fake news,” if you have grown tired of hearing him call journalists “enemies of the people” — well, that’s unfortunate, because plenty of others are still paying attention.Around the world, dictators and would-be authoritarians have picked up his attitude and his terminology. From Syria to Venezuel
  
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• Monson: Is religious bias keeping BYU out of a P5 conference?

  12-12-2017 20:19
  You can read the above headline two different ways, with two different meanings.Fitting, since this is a column with more questions than conclusions.Please provide your own, at the end.Former BYU athletic director Rondo Fehlberg was asked Monday on my radio show why the school and its athletic programs are not currently in a P5 conference. It is the single greatest hardship those programs face, the one that limits BYU’s competitive and economic opportunities as they pertain to sports, pres
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz stuck between bricks and a hard choice

  12-12-2017 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  ...with Favors, seeing his minutes and production drop won’t increase what the Jazz can get back in return should they choose to trade him. It leaves the Jazz f ...
  
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• Lehi QB Cammon Cooper earns Gatorade Player of the Year honor

  12-12-2017 19:55
  Washington State commit Cammon Cooper led Lehi to the Class 5A state championship last month.He was rewarded by being named the Gatorade Utah football player of the year.Cooper threw for 4,726 yards and 58 touchdowns in leading the Pioneers to a 12-2 record. He completed 331 of his 523 attempts.“Cammon Cooper is one of the best quarterbacks I’ve seen in a long time,” Skyline coach Zac Erekson said in a release. “He has the poise of a 30-year-old. Seeing him play live, it&
  
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• Weber County Commissioner Kerry Gibson, who challenged climate change, resigns to take state natural resources post

  12-12-2017 19:53
  Weber County Commissioner Kerry Gibson announced Tuesday that he is resigning his seat to become the deputy director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources.The fifth-generation Ogden dairy farmer and a former three-term Republican Utah House member said his resignation will be effective Jan. 12.“I believe my background and experience can help DNR and the state address some of Utah’s critical natural resource needs,” he said.“With over 3 million residents and the expe
  
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• Better grab your umbrellas ☔️ Check out your @MountainAmerica Threes of the Week 💧 https://t.co/2BTJMuG0RR

  12-12-2017 19:42 via twitter.com
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Some good reasons to vote for Roy Moore

  12-12-2017 19:42
  On the one hand, The Washington Post has reported that Roy Moore made advances on numerous women when they were in their teens and he was in his 30s. On the other hand, though, he thinks America was last great when slavery was still legal and “families were united.” (This could not have been less true under slavery, a system of absolute brutal disregard for the family that tore families apart and enshrined rape.)But then again, on a third hand, he thinks that repealing all the amendm
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Alec Burks making the most of his opportunities

  12-12-2017 19:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... Jazz: Why the delay of Joe Johnson’s return will hurt Utah 11/24 - Utah Jazz: 3 reasons why Utah has struggled as of late 11/22 - Utah Jazz: Time to make ...
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Thunder, Nurkic, Jazz

  12-12-2017 19:26 via sportspyder.com
  ...miss 15 games. Determining how best to use and remains an ongoing issue for Jazz head coach Quin Snyder, writes . “When you play with two big guys, like any...
  
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• Some parents and therapists say Mormon bishops’ interviews with children about sexual matters are ‘intrusive, inappropriate’

  12-12-2017 19:13
  An older Mormon man routinely sits alone in a closed-door conversation with a younger woman, or even a teenage girl, talking about, of all things, sex — and it doesn’t take a Matt Lauer-under-the-desk lock to keep them both there.
  No, the parties are willing participants in an LDS religious ritual: the bishop’s interview.
  This generally happens in two ways. First is when the Mormon lay leader of a congregation (usually the bishop and always a male) calls in the boys and girls i
  
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• Man in custody after ‘attempted terrorist attack’ in N.Y. subway was inspired by ISIS, officials say

  12-12-2017 19:02
  New York • A 27-year-old man detonated a crude pipe bomb strapped to his body inside a crowded Manhattan subway passage Monday morning, according to police — sending terrified commuters running for the exits and counterterrorism officials racing to unravel the second terrorist attack in the city in less than two months.Authorities identified the suspect as Akayed Ullah, an immigrant from Bangladesh who came to the United States in 2011. The attack — which left the suspect wounde
  
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• ‘The Last Jedi’ takes familiar ‘Star Wars’ ideas and characters into bold new places

  12-12-2017 18:49
  With one foot planted in the Skywalker family saga and the other striding toward bold new territory, writer-director Rian Johnson delivers plenty of excitement, humor and soaring moments in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” a rousing middle-of-a-trilogy installment of the franchise.Starkiller Base, destroyed at the end of “The Force Awakens,” is still a smoldering cinder when Johnson’s story kicks off, but the evil First Order is as determined as ever to wipe out the &ldq
  
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• Driver hits teen student in front of West Valley City junior high school

  12-12-2017 18:46
  A driver hit a junior high student crossing the street Tuesday morning, causing critical injuries to the teen and “quite a bit” of damage to the car, police said.The 13-year-old boy, who is a seventh grade student at John F. Kennedy Junior High School, had been dropped off by his mother on the west side of 4800 West at about 4500 South, across the street from the school, said West Valley City spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku.The teen ran across the southbound lanes safely, but was hit by
  
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• Catherine Rampell: The Trump administration's tax 'report' reads like fan fiction

  12-12-2017 18:33
  Washington • Unable to produce an actual analysis of its tax plan, the Trump administration has resorted to cooking the books.Again.White House officials and Republican lawmakers have repeatedly claimed that their tax plan will unleash such tremendous growth that the bill will pay for itself.Of course, no one remotely credible backs this up. Not the Tax Policy Center, not the Tax Foundation (which uses relatively rosy assumptions about growth), not the Penn Wharton Budget Model, not Goldman
  
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• Trump seeks to dismiss sexual harassment allegations as ‘fake news’

  12-12-2017 18:32
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Tuesday sought to discredit both the news media and some of the women who have accused him of sexual harassment, calling the allegations against him "fabricated stories" and "fake news.""Despite thousands of hours wasted and many millions of dollars spent, the Democrats have been unable to show any collusion with Russia — so now they are moving on to the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don't know and/or have never met," Tr
  
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• Jazz mailbag: What is the missing piece to make the Jazz an elite team?

  12-12-2017 18:08
  Tony Jones, one of the Tribune’s Utah Jazz beat reporters, will answer questions submitted on Twitter each week in his Jazz mailbag. Here are this week’s questions and answers.#TonyTalks The building blocks for the Jazz are Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, but the Jazz need at least another piece to compete. What would be the ideal characteristics of that piece?— Ryan Dangerfield (@ryandanger26) December 12, 2017
  The first answer is the Jazz have to identify what Donovan Mitch
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Even without Roy Moore, the GOP is in a downward spiral

  12-12-2017 18:04
  The GOP has a bunch of problems, including these: Its signature bill is a dud, it is shedding voters and it is led by someone who, in the midst of a cultural revolution regarding sexual assault, is widely believed to be a serial sexual predator.USA Today reports:“A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds just 32% support the GOP tax plan; 48% oppose it. That’s the lowest level of public support for any major piece of legislation enacted in the past three decades, including the Af
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Has Alec Burks Finally Come Back?

  12-12-2017 17:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... lso good discussion in there about Favors and Gobert and how they fit on the Jazz. The age old debate: can and Derrick Favors share the floor together? The Ja ...
  
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• Weber County Commissioner Kerry Gibson, who questioned climate change, resigns to take state natural resources post

  12-12-2017 17:30
  Weber County Commissioner Kerry Gibson announced Tuesday that he is resigning his seat to become the deputy director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources.The fifth-generation Ogden dairy farmer and a former three-term Republican Utah House member said his resignation will be effective Jan. 12.“I believe my background and experience can help DNR and the state address some of Utah’s critical natural resource needs,” he said.“With over 3 million residents and the expe
  
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• Three women reassert allegations of sexual harassment against Trump

  12-12-2017 17:26
  The #MeToo sexual harassment movement roiling the nation reached the doors of the White House on Monday, when three women who last year accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct began a renewed public push to gain attention for their allegations.The three accusers, Samantha Holvey, Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks, were among more than a dozen who had initially come forward during the 2016 presidential campaign. The three reinvigorated their stories this week with an appearance on Megyn
  
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• 'Mormon Land': Therapist, former bishop discuss LDS worthiness interviews — how they help and how they can hurt

  12-12-2017 17:18
  Amid the current flood of revelations about sexual harassment and misconduct, new questions are arising about a seemingly benign, longtime staple of the LDS Church: the bishop’s interview.These private conversations between older men and younger women sometimes delve into intimate sexual matters. Are reforms needed in this process to protect both parties?Discussing the topic on the latest segment of “Mormon Land” are Julie de Azevedo Hanks, a Salt Lake City therapist, and Richa
  
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• ‘How is my daughter a pervert?’: Alabama dad‘s plain-spoken rebuke of Roy Moore strikes a nerve

  12-12-2017 16:59
  Perhaps it was the man's strong but plain-spoken rebuke outside a Roy Moore rally on the campaign's final night, condemning the Republican candidate's past comments lambasting homosexuality.Perhaps it was the admission of the man, a peanut farmer, that he too, had harbored some of the same anti-gay feelings.Perhaps it was his sign, a photograph of his daughter, a lesbian who, he said, had killed herself when she was 23.Whatever it was, the two-minute video of Nathan Mathis struck a nerve, travel
  
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